Tropical Depression Ten was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall on the Florida Panhandle of America in September 2007. The system developed as a subtropical depression on September 21 in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from the interaction of a tropical wave, the tail end of a cold front, and an upper-level low. Initially containing a poorly defined circulation and intermittent thunderstorm activity, the system transitioned into a tropical depression after convection increased over the center. Tracking northwestward, the depression moved ashore near Fort Walton Beach early on September 22, before dissipating over southeastern Alabama. Initially the depression was forecast to move ashore as a minimal tropical storm, prompting state of emergency declarations in Mississippi and Louisiana. It was the first tropical cyclone to threaten the New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina and the destructive 2005 hurricane season. Overall impact from the cyclone was minor and largely limited to light rainfall. However, the precursor system spawned a damaging tornado in Eustis, Florida, where 20 houses were destroyed and 30 more were damaged.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
705:
Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own right, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian
1632:
Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems
1980:
At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice
1997:
Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
2011:
Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_loyalty_to_martyrs
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
fugacious: Fleeting, fading quickly, transient. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fugacious
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. --Arthur Schopenhauer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer